In the name of Allah Most Beneficent Most Merciful
Today, on 21 Safar 1439H, equivalent to 11 November 2017, a group of teachers and students from DHA Suffa University came to Darul Uloom Karachi, and this servant got the opportunity to meet them.
On their request this servant presented a short introduction about the knowledge of Hadith (sayings of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) to them, and also recited the Hadith Musalsal Bil Awwaliyya* (the first Hadith which teachers normally teach their students). It was very pleasing to look at their enthusiasm and interest for Knowledge of Deen.
They asked me to write some advice, so I am writing these lines in compliance to this.
Nowadays the biggest motive behind gaining knowledge is understood to be to gain maximum wealth, due to which the Muslim Ummah is not receiving the correct benefit from knowledge. The real motive to gain knowledge should be to serve, in different branches of life, one’s country and the Muslim Ummah in general, and to embellish one’s own and one’s society’s actions and character. This servant gives this advice to these bright youngsters that they should gain knowledge with this intention, whatever kind of knowledge it may be. If they do so, Inshallah this will prove to be a reason for their success in this world and the Hereafter.
And Allah Ta’ala is The One who gives Tawfeeq (i.e. the strength to act on this advice)
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
* Hadith Musalsal Bil Awwaliyya
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الرَّاحِمُونَ يَرْحَمُهُمْ الرَّحْمَنُ ارْحَمُوا مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَرْحَمْكُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ
Abdullah ibn Amr reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Those who are merciful will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those on the earth and the One in the heavens will have mercy upon you.”
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 1924